Hah, I find I can be VERY expressive and creative in GURPS!

I’m a GURPS fanboy. Complexity is determined entirely by how many rules the GM and players agree to - I’ve got a player with dozens of skills and several wonky abilities who plays side by side with an 8-skill player. They both do well, and both have what they want - one character is just more detailed than the other.

The trick with GURPS is to pull in the bare minimum of rules that you need for the kind of game you want. If you don’t like how a rule works? Swap it out!

I’ve enjoyed the Ironsworn line too, for a different feel. That’s a much less complicated system that can also be played GM-less, it works narrative elements into the engine - the story dictates how the rules apply!

Who’s renting to these guys? And how soon can we boycott them?

Hell, just pull the mask

Or he counted how many others were around

That’s what I was thinking - much as I wanted them to do more, it looked like the bystanders were being careful to do everything they could that wouldn’t invite immediate escalation - making clear they were filming, moving dropped material away when they got a chance, and generally slowing down the whole process considerably.

GURPS Vehicles had some options that you needed to do a little calculus for, iirc. To be fair, that was an extremely optional add-on, and the calculations were done as part of designing your custom vehicle, not in play!

Their speed/range penalty calculation is also logarithmic I think, but nobody actually calculates that - you just look up the adjustments on the table, which is reprinted all over the place (rulebooks, character sheets,GM screens…)

The red is done for dramatic effect in rodeos; it’s movement they react to. Especially if they’re feeling agitated, as in a rodeo.

Huh, TIL on the snakebite thing. I was pulling that from an old boy scout manual, just remember something about cutting the wound site first.

The red of the cape setting off a bull is a myth, sure; but you still don’t want to wave any capes around in front of a pissed off bull! I’ll stand by how I phrased that claim :p

Most people know about sucking venom from a snakebite, even if they’re not clear on details. They also know you probably don’t want to wave a red cape in front of a bull.

I think there’s allowable degrees, and that it’s table-dependant.

In general, knowing trolls are vulnerable to fire is fairly common player knowledge. I’ll also point out that even in The Hobbit, when the trolls petrified in the sunlight, the narrator says “for trolls, as you probably already know, must be underground before dawn.” This troll vulnerability is common knowledge in middle earth!

I think that if a GM wants a little known vulnerability, they can do a little extra work to make that easier for the players to respond appropriately to. Trolls work far better as a fairly tough monster with a fairly well known vulnerability. If you want that to be different, I’d use a troll variant, and make it clear that these creatures don’t fear fire!

Why make it a grift? Start reaching out to them to check in after each rapture prediction, and you can get word-of-mouth business!

If Tylenol caused autism, there would be a lot more support for trains in the U.S.

Hah, I meant why couldn’t the person who committed suicide ask for forgiveness at the pearly gates! What’s so special about being redeemed before death, instead of after?

I never understood why you couldn’t ask posthumously

I mean, it does need to happen.

It’s just part of a long list of other things that also need to happen

I’m sorry. I’m not Peter Parker.

You’re conflating work that needs to get done with work capitalists want done.

Yes, someone needs to deal with sanitation. But we don’t need a capitalist to own the sanitation system to address this. It can be done in turn, for instance; or volunteers can be rewarded with non-necessity items.

It is, but putting a hot thing next to other cold things also warms them, and can allow bacterial growth to start if it’s a large enough heat source. Letting it cool some first avoids that.

Lol, should have Googled it first after all!

Here I was hoping I could get someone excited to geek out about how all these new-to-me systems play together!